Posted: 6/25/2012 2:53:46 PM EDT
| What's everyone's opinion on the new production colt 1911's ? Any MIM parts ? |
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Only Wilson Combat doesn't do MIM anymore AFAIK, and those parts are easily swapped out if need be, but my Colt Defender is still shooting strong after 2 years, MIM and all. Not a single malfunction after 500 rounds so far.
Colt really isn't that expensive anymore when you look at some of the crazy 1911 prices out there. |
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Only Wilson Combat doesn't do MIM anymore AFAIK, and those parts are easily swapped out if need be, but my Colt Defender is still shooting strong after 2 years, MIM and all. Not a single malfunction after 500 rounds so far. Colt really isn't that expensive anymore when you look at some of the crazy 1911 prices out there. Dan Wesson doesn't do MIM on most of their guns from what I remember reading. I know that the Valor lacks MIM. |
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The MIM parts in a Colt are:
The sear. The magazine catch. The disconnecter. Everything else is forged or cast. Years ago a gun writer (Jeff Cooper??) asked a Colt executive why they didn't break some of the sharp edges of the 1911. The exec told him that they'd quietly made a short run of guns with rounded edges without telling anyone and waited to see what customers thought. The customers responded that they didn't like the rounded edges and thought Colt had cheapened the guns. Colt quietly went back to the sharp edges. |
